This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

This article proposes a continuum of 'Visitors' and 'Residents' as a replacement for Prensky's much-criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed. With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them.  We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them." (Daphne Koller)

With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)

Video for symposium debate on Digital Natives - excellent video on joining a movement.

Stephen Heppell talking to Marc Prensky about the role of the teacher in todays world.

Video for symposium debate - Digital natives

The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.

video for syposium discussion - The digital native debate

We are living in a historical moment of transformation and realignment in the creation and sharing of knowledge, in social, political and economic life, and in global connectedness. There is wide agreement that we need new models of education suited to this historic moment, and not simply new models of schooling, but entirely new visions of learning better suited to the increasing complexity, connectivity, and velocity of our new knowledge society. Fortunately, we are also able to harness the same technologies and social processes that have powered these transformations in order to provide the next generation with learning experiences that open doors to academic achievement, economic opportunity, and civic engagement.

Abstract This paper is a critical review of some recent literature around the 'literacies of the digital' in schools and higher education. It discusses the question: 'what does the conjoining of the terms "digital" and "literacy" add to our understanding of teaching and learning in higher education'? It explores the continuing role of critical literacy in relation to the idea that digital literacies are transformative for pedagogy in this sector.

A follow up to the first TED talk in 2006. Sir Ken Robinson discusses changing education from an 'industrial' model to an 'agricultural' model where we nurture learning not manufacture it.

Eric Mazur, Harvard physics professor and Learning Catalytics

http://www.ted.com At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.

http://www.ted.com Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Salman Khan talks about Khan Academy

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson

Ascilite 2009 conference programme includes numerous full papers including Kligyte (2009) referenced in EDU8117 Study book p. 17 Has many other papers on using networked & global learning.

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning 2010 referenced in EDU8117 Study book, p. 17 Has many interesting conference papers

An article about ALISON which collects vocational training courses for free delivery similar to what Khan Academy provides for academic courses.